Day two of the inquiry commenced with a debate between a committee member and G4S director of Care and Justice Services in SA, Cobus Groenewoud about why it should take 48 hours to obtain the name of the inmate who was moved from cell 35 before Bester was moved to that cell.
A parliamentary committee probing the escape of notorious Facebook rapist and murderer Thabo Bester was left with more questions than answers when officials of the prison where Bester escaped responded with limited accountability.
Members of parliament tore into G4S bosses who were summoned to account on how murderer and rapist Thabo Bester escaped from the Mangaung prison last year.
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If this were the plot of a movie, it would be too far-fetched to be believable. A high-profile convicted murderer was accused of faking his own death in a fire, then escaping the prison to live in the open with his celebrity doctor girlfriend.